Posted by emme on September 24, 2010, at 16:47:31
In reply to What will a pill do? - What will a pill not do?, posted by SLS on September 23, 2010, at 22:49:08
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> - ScottGreat thread, Scott!
What the right meds have done for me:
Relieve (not numb) the terrible psychic anguish of depression. You know, that terrible pain and utter despair that's hard to describe unless you've been there.
Restore my enthusiasm for the things I enjoy.
Improve my apathy so I can actually DO the things I enjoy.
Calm down my out-of-control anxiety to normal and situation-appropriate anxiety.
Enable me to make decisions in a rational manner.
Enable me to sleep normally.
Remove a lot of the distorted thinking that goes with my depression and allow me to keep things in a more normal perspective.
In short, it puts me back in the game so I can do the normal living that people without depression do. It's amazing what you can do when you don't feel awful. :)
I think therapy is a good thing, and I've certainly found it helpful in many ways and continue to do so (all humans have baggage I think). But I have also been astonished at how much of my terrible, depressed state of mind that wouldn't relent even with a great therapist simply evaporated once I had appropriate medication.
emme
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